The film, a satire on the Cold War, starring Peter Sellars delighted and provoked audiences around the world.
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But the most dramatic change is Sellars' incorporation of three dancers who interact with the soloists in amazing ways.
Sellars, a warlock who writes, publishes and sells a Wicca-themed mystery each year.
The next day, he wrote to another actress, Catherine Sellars, setting up a rendezvous for the same day ("I'm kissing you already").
Many admirers would welcome a chance to hear Mr Adams's piece, free from the manic inspiration and sensory overload of Mr Sellars.
Crucially, since the premiere, Sellars has transformed "Gospel" into a fully staged work, set on two wooden platforms in front of the orchestra.
It was at one with the dated tone of the piece, a vein of unpersuasive social criticism that Mr. Sellars has been mining for too many years.
Mr. Sellars, a longtime collaborator of Mr. Adams, compiled the libretto from existing poems and texts ranging from the Bible to the writings of the Roman Catholic activist Dorothy Day.
The casting alone proclaims the magnitude of his ambition: not only Meredith and Ringwald but Norman Mailer and his daughter Kate, Julie Delpy, Woody Allen, and, decisively, Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare, Jr.
If a jury reaches the same conclusion about Valle, it should acquit, said Andy Sellars, a staff lawyer for the Digital Medial Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Sellars tells the story through texts ranging from those by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to the 20th-century radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day, from poetry by Louise Erdrich and Rosario Castellanos to excerpts from the Old and News Testaments.
"The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, recently given its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, approximates the structure of Bach's Passions but has neither the devotional fervor nor the narrative energy that make those works unforgettable.
And sure enough, the retelling of Christ's last days through the eyes of Mary Magdalene is interlaced with heavy doses of modern social activism in this stirring new oratorio, composed by John Adams to a libretto compiled by Peter Sellars from texts both ancient and contemporary.
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